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  • Beyond the Manuscript: Community Experiences and Perceptions of Clinical and Translational Research and Researchers
  • Consuelo Wilkins, Al Richmond, and Michael Yonas

Welcome to Progress in Community Health Partnerships' latest episode of our Beyond the Manuscript podcast. In each volume of the Journal, the editors select one article for our Beyond the Manuscript post-study interview with the authors. Beyond the Manuscript provides the authors the opportunity to tell listeners what they would want to know about the project beyond what went into the final manuscript.

In this episode of Beyond the Manuscript, Associate Editor, Michael Yonas, interviews Consuelo Wilkins and Al Richmond, authors of "Community Experiences and Perceptions of Clinical and Translational Research and Researchers."

Beyond the Manuscript.

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Michael Yonas:

Great. Hi, this is Michael Yonas calling. I'm one of the associate editors with Progress in Community Health Partnershipshere calling from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

It's really such a pleasure to be with you, Al Richmond and Consuelo Wilkins, today to talk about the manuscript and beyond the manuscript of community experiences and perceptions of the clinical and translational research and researchers. If you each would maybe take a moment to introduce yourselves and then we'll have a nice chat.

Al Richmond:

Hi, my name is Al Richmond. I'm the executive director of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, and I am based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Michael Yonas:

Great. Thank you.

Consuelo Wilkins:

And I am Consuelo Wilkins. I'm a physician and researcher in Nashville, where I'm on the faculty at both Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Meharry Medical College.

Michael Yonas:

Great. Thank you both so much for sharing your time and for sharing this work with Progress in

Community Health Partnerships and the leadership. It's really an article that we had a great deal of discussion with as the associate editor board.

And it's gotten a lot of great response, particularly this opportunity to go beyond some of the work that you had done initially to look at staff perceptions of this interaction and community engagement and research, but really to engage communities through this standardized survey item to understand the dynamics of relationships, trust, and trust-building, and the key levers that really relate to community perceptions of participation in research in this way, particularly associated with the clinical and translational science institutes or academies.

I'm wondering if you would tell us a little bit more about what prompted this work and some of the partnership elements that emerged.

Consuelo Wilkins:

So I'll start. I think for the clinical and translational science awardees, being about 60 institutions around the country really being charged with bringing communities to the table since this program—these [End Page 273]programs were started back around 2006, the growing interest in the space and the reasons to bring community members from these different groups together was really compelling I think early on, although many people didn't know quite how to do this work.

So I think it was important for us to take a step back after the program had been in place for a while to really see how we're doing with engaging communities locally and compare that across the different sites.

I think it's important to recognize that the work that we did as a group really started with this community partners integration workgroup, which is a subgroup that included community members as leaders. I think that's an important viewpoint in which this work was done.

Michael Yonas:

That's great. Al, do you have anything to add on that piece? Okay, so he may have gone.

Consuelo, I'm really glad you pointed that out in terms of how this work originated, which is something that from my involvement with the CTSA at the University of Pittsburgh when I was on the faculty there, I was really interested to see that this and learn that this work had emerged from that...

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